Today’s Alexandria, home to 6 million people and an illustrious past, is a shabby beehive of a city, but since 2002 it has had a new library. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a steel and granite ...

Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants. As a political centre in ancient times, the former location of the renowned ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and a ...

Egypt is one of those few mythical travel ... In the modern era, there is the Alexandria Bibliotheca, a wonderous library ...